Gourmet cakes are delectable desserts that can be bought in stores. It can be given as a gift, as a dessert, or for anniversaries, birthdays and other special celebrations. You can also bake one yourself and save a lot from it. You can look into recipe books to guide you.

Here are some of the famous gourmet cake recipe cookbooks:

Junior's Cheesecake Cookbook

This cheesecake recipe cookbook made by Beth Allen and Alan Rosen contains 50 delectable recipes for cheesecakes, New York style.

This is based from the best cheesecake selling restaurant known as Junior's Restaurant. They are now revealing their all-time favorite recipes so that everyone can enjoy their award winning cheesecakes. Some of the cheesecake recipes they included are the All Cream Cheese, On a Sponge Cake Crust, and No Sour Cream among others. This is from the Junior's Original New York Cheesecake, which started everything, up to the cheesecakes with a twist in flavor like Rocky Road, Pumpkin Mousse and Banana Fudge.

It also includes small cheesecake recipes like Little Fellas to their newest creation, their Skyscraper Cheesecakes with layers of cake flavors like Lemon Coconut, Carrot Cake and Boston Cream Pie among others.

This recipe book was released just last October 2007. It is illustrated with English texts. It has about 176 pages. The author of the book is Alan Rosen, Harry Rosen's grandson. Hence, Harry Rosen is the founder of Junior's Restaurant situated in Times Square, Grand Central Station and Brooklyn.

The Cake Mix Doctor

This recipe book was made by no less than Anne Byrn. The book mainly focuses on cake recipes with a touch of doctoring for the actual package. This is thru touches of cocoa powder, sweet butter, poppy seeds, and eggs, vanilla yoghurt, grated lemon zest and sherry that make up the delicious Charleston Poppy Seed Cake.

With the recipes in this book, even beginners can learn recipes like Toasted Coconut sour Cream Cake and Devilishly Good Chocolate Cake to Caramel Cake, Holiday Yule Log and various cheesecake recipes. There are also sheet cakes, coffee cakes, bars and brownies and pound cakes.

The book comprises of 175 quick and easy-to-cook cake recipes. The foods are tender, moist, deep, rich and even complexly flavored. This is all thanks to Anne Byrn, a self-described purist and award-winning food writer. Her recipes promote ease-of-use, convenience and dependability. It also has a Q&A portion where in all possible questions and tips about cooking cakes are indicated. This recipe book comprises of 464 pages in paperback material. It was published last November 1999 in English text.

Southern Cakes: Sweet and Irresistible Recipes for Everyday Celebrations

This recipe book was written by renowned cooking teacher, Nancie McDermott. Residing in North Carolina, she was able to make this book possible with the help of Becky Luigart-Stayner, a photographer of various magazines and living in Alabama.

You will love the cake recipes of Southerners, especially the chocolate goodness of the Mississippi Mud. This book consists of 65 recipes like Peanut Cake, Humble Pear Bread, Jelly Rolls and Jam Cakes among others. It even has a whole chapter for coconut and chocolate cakes. You will also learn from its section on Baking 101 about cake basics and finishing touches such as frosting the cakes. It also has tips on storage, assuring fresh and long-lasting flavors for every slice.

It was published last June 2007 in English. It has 168 pages and paperback bound.